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Anne Robinson exposed using tax avoidance scheme

Alexi Mostrous and Fay Schlesinger

October 5 2012, 1:03am, The Times

Anne Robinson, the BBC Watchdog presenter, and three members of the pop band Take That are among 2,000 people who attempted to shelter £1.2 billion through an aggressive tax avoidance scheme, The Times has learnt.

Ms Robinson, 68, is one of the largest investors in the so-called Liberty tax strategy, which enabled investors to escape income tax by paying 7p in the pound in fees. She is understood to have paid £280,000 to use the Jersey-based scheme to avoid tax on about £4 million.